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Yet the casual virtuosity of this poem is a kind of consolation. WC 's assets include the power of compression and the power of brevity, sometimes Larkin esque (as in the conclusion of Bloody Men...

The title punctures its own potential pretentiousness with reference to The Archers, the much-loved BBC radio serial of country life. Cope's prose style, like her poetry, is dialogic and punchy. When she gave up...

For The Times in the 1930s her subjects included the gold rush at Kakamega in Kenya's only tropical rain forest, and New Deal farming in the American South. In March 1938 she embarked...

This play effectively portrays the aftermath in Britain of the defection of Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean , who fled to the Soviet Union on 25 May 1951 after years of spying for Communist Russia...

The third play, The Mask was inferior as a stage play, in AR 's later judgement, to its radio version (in which she collaborated with her cousin Robin Milford , who wrote the music, and...

SD considered she had never enjoyed anything so much as collaborative work on the BBC World Service radio soap Westway (in work broadcast in November 1997). This involved six writers driving the producers mad...

A story by SM was read on the BBC 's Morning Story programme on 20 March 1989. Since then she has written a number of pieces specifically for radio or television. Finetake Productions made her...

SD 's contributions to BBC radio include So Does the Nightingale (1980) and Don't Worry about Matilda (broadcast in 1983 and produced in 1987). Tell Me a Film, 2003, and Baloney Said Salome...

Dear Octopus was revived almost immediately at the Adelphi , in July and August of 1940, and it remains DS 's most frequently revived play. It was published by Heinemann in 1938. It...

IM published her Booker-Prize-winning novel, The Sea, the Sea, a tale of obsessive love, televised by the BBC in 2001.

BBC Radio 3 broadcast readings and discussion by KC and working-class poet Paul Farley of poems by Philip Larkin based on train travel around Larkinland and conversation with some of its denizens.

She was commissioned to write this play both by the vicar of St Mary's Church inOxford, and by the BBC Third Programme. It was performed at St Mary's (the UniversityChurch, and the actual scene...

SH had already broadcast ten plays by the time the BBC published The Cold Country, and Other Plays for Radio, a collection of five of these pieces.

BB did an interview with Christopher Cook for the BBC World Service , which is available on the internet from their Audio Interviews series.

NJ made an additional career as a public lecturer; without any specialist expertise, she could express confident and articulate opinions on a wide range of topics. She was a regular and outspoken contributor to the...